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W. H. ALMY. TRANSFER DEVIGE FOR KNITTING MACHINES.

Patented Feb. 2, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WVILLEY H. ALMY, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROCHESTERHOSIERY COMPANY, OF SAD [E PLACE.

TRANSFER DEVICE FOR KNITTING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,907, dated February2, 1892.

Application filed September 15, 1891. Serial No. 405,765. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, \VILLEY II. ALMY, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe and State of New York, have invented a certain new and usefulTransfer Device for Knitting-Machines; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to beafull, clear, and exact description of the same,reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of thisspecification, and to the figures and letters of reference markedthereon.

My present invention has for its objects to provide a device fortransferring or applying the stitches of knit goods to the needles of aknitting-machine, which, if desired, may be of a different kind from theone which performed the first knitting operationas, for instance,applying the knit wristbands or ribbed ends of garments or hosiery tomachines for forming the body of the garment or stocking, or viceversait being capable of many uses, either in the form shown herein orin other forms particularly adapted to any variety of machine; and tothese and other ends the in- 2 5 vention consists in certainimprovements in construction and combinations of parts, all as will behereinafter fully described, and the novel features pointed out in theclaims at the end of this specification.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a device constructed inaccordance with my invention,with a piece of knit-goods applied theretoready to be transferred to a knitting machine. Fig. 2 is a sectionalview showing 5 the device applied to the needles of a knitting-machine;Fig. 3, a top view of a portion of the main supporting-ring; Fig. 4, a.sectional view on the line as a of Fig. 2, looking upward; Fig. 5, aview of one of the transferneedles or stitch-supports detached.

Similar reference numerals and letters in the several figures denotesimilar parts.

The form of the invention shown in the drawings is adapted fortransferring tubular 5 knit fabrics, such as the ribbed bands orendpieces of hosiery or other garments, to the machines that form the bodyportion thereof, and accordingly the main frame consists of a ring 1,having secured to itaseries of grooved 5o transfer-points 2 forreceiving the stitches of the goods to be transferred, correspondinginnumber to the needles 3 of the knitting-niaohine that is to form thebalance of the garment. The preferred form of transfer-point 2 is madefrom a single piece of wire with its upper end 4; bent at an angle andits lower or. body portion reduced and provided with the groove 5 in itsouter side, with which the knitting-needle co-operates. These points aresecured to thering 1 by forming in the outer side of the latter a seriesof grooves, one for the reception of the body of each point, and in thetop a corresponding radial groove for the bent upper end 4, as shown inFigs. 2 and 3. The outer side of ring 1 tapers toward the bottom (asitis located in the drawings) and the points are held and securelyclamped in position by an outer ring 6, (tapered on the inside tocorrespond to ring 1,) which engages their outer sides, as they areslightly thicker than the depth of the grooves in ring 1, said ring 6being secured in position when forced on by screws 7 or other securingdevices. This construction enables me at any time to replace any of thepoints that may become broken or bent and, as the ring 1 is made to agage, to readily assemble the parts.

Passing vertically through the ring 1 are two pins 8, secured at theirlower ends to a sinker or doffer-plate 9, arranged inside thetransfer-points and having fingers or points 10 projecting between thelatter, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4:, the upper ends of said pins 8 havingheads, between which and ring 1 are arranged springs 11, normallypressing the pins upward and holding the sinker in the position shown inFig. 2 in full lines.

The manner of using the device will now be apparent to those skilled inthe art. The operator first places the stitches a of the ribbed cuff orknit band A (shown in the drawings) upon the transfer-points 2 of thedevice in the usual manner, preferably byinsorting the first open seriesof stitches over 5 the said points and then raveling the yarn down,so asto leave only this last series of stitches on the points. Having donethis, he places the device over the needles of the machine to which thework is to be transferred, as in Fig. 2, with one of the needles 3 inthe groove of each of the transfer-points, and then presses down on thepins S,the points 10 of ring and the series of grooved transfer-pointsthe sinker engaging the stitches and moving secured thereto, of theannular sinker having them down on the needles, as in dotted lines thefingers projecting between the transfer- Fig. 2, when the transferdevice may be repoints and adapted to be moved longitudi- 5 moved andthe knitting-machine operated in nally thereof, substantially asdescribed. 20

the usual manner. 2. The combination, with the supporting- WhileI haveshown a form of device adapted ring and the series of groovedtransfer-points for circular-knitting machines, it is evident securedthereto, of the annular sinker, the 0 that substantially the samemechanism could crating and steadying pins cooperating with IO beadapted for straight goods, and I do not the ring, and springs forretracting the 2 5 therefore desire to be confined to precisely sinker,substantially as described.

the construction shown anddescribed, except VVILLEY H. ALMY. W as statedin the claims. Witnesses:

I claim as my invention- FRED F. CHURCH,

I 5 1. The combination, with the 'supporting- GEORGE A, GILLETTE.

